Description: White marble statue base with simple moulding above on three sides (w: 0.56 × h: 0.62 × d: 0.63); there is a rectangular hole on the top. Chipped and weathered all over.

Text: Inscribed on two fasciae of upper moulding (lines 1-2) and on face.

Letters: 0.05; two dots above first A, line 2.

Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico, west end.

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: ?Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Museum

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[------] priestess for life of the goddess Aphrodite and anthephorus, high priestess, daughter of the city, to her homeland.

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

[ ...... ] priestess for life of the goddess Aphrodite and flower-bearer (anthephoros), high priestess, daughter of the city (set up the statue) to the patris.

Commentary

Unlike other texts, this one must have started on an upper feature, since line 1 is on the upper moulding.This lady's titles are very impressive; she is the only attested priestess for life of Aphrodite. For her other two titles see 1209.

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